History is the best subject

gee_shakedown

a thread for lovers of good old history.

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Reply 1

generalebriety

I quite like history. Shame I can't do it; I have an awful memory.

Reply 2

Barry Scott

I do it at A-Level. I was hating it and then I wrote my personal study and now I like it again...weird.

Reply 3

Nasher and Basher

Hell yeah, we are making history, we are history and we learn from history- well sometimes. I love it, but Medicine calls to me more. Thats I want to study the History of Medicine.

Reply 4

Federer Rulz

Why learn history when the future is more important?

Reply 5

Ethelred the Unready

Yayness! History rules. et cetera. :smile:

Reply 6

Jackathon

Federer Rulz

Why learn history when the future is more important?

Because you can't learn the future?

Reply 7

Just Plain Bob.

Yeeaah! Historian, here!

Reply 8

Ethelred the Unready

Federer Rulz

Why learn history when the future is more important?

The future becomes history and has a nasty habit of repeating what already happened in history. History is a great tool for gaining an insight (sp?) into the future, arguably.

Reply 9

apotoftea

Fantastic subject and historians tend to be a damn good bunch of people too :biggrin:

Reply 10

IAmBetterThanYou

Shame history has no use in the real world.

^Wrong.

IAmBetterThanYou

Shame history has no use in the real world.

That's where you'd be wrong:

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007120704

:wink:

Reply 13

maria0208

Great subject; there is so much to learn, and especially if you do an Individual Assignment at A2 Level, where you teach yourself and can learn so much more.

Reply 14

eDDeboo

Clearly.

And not just because it is great fun, but it gives you skills that are universal in life that many other degrees won't be able to give you.

Reply 15

mary21

i love history, as well as languages, which is why i'm gonna do it at uni, along with french...was going to do law, but then realised i couldn't give up history yet!

and history has so much use in the real world...you can't understand the present without understanding the past and it helps us to understand our society and culture, which is what makes it so facinating - learning where we have come from and how our country, and others have changed!